P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do.
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Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It's not pretty. But it's striking, I'll give it that. It's not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.
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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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The killjoys initiated automobile crash standards so rigorous that we can't buy a car that hasn't been dropped from the top of a phone pole with our whole family strapped inside.
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Modern elites live in bubbles of liberal affluence like Ann Arbor, Brookline, the Upper West Side, Palo Alto, or Chevy Chase. These places used to have impoverished neighborhoods nearby, but the poor people got chased out by young singles living in group homes, hipsters, and urban homesteading gay couples.
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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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Greatest generation came through some stuff that we can't even imagine - the Depression, World War I - and all they wanted after that was a breather and a calm and a quiet life, and they get us.
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Harvard is the home of American ideas.
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Are you a Democrat because you're a union member? Then why, after eight years of Bill Clinton, does some Chinese guy in Guangdong province have your job?
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People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'
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President Obama has contempt for real money.
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The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor of greater spending, for which the taxpayers will pay.
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Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.
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Taxi drivers all over the world, by the way, are under Newspaper Guild contract to give easy quotes to foreign correspondents.
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We all know the types who listen to Pete Seeger songs; even Pete admits they aren't interesting.